The Plymouth North Eagles will face off against the Barnstable Red Hawks at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Plymouth North's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for three straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
Plymouth North's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Whitman-Hanson Regional 1-0.
Meanwhile, Barnstable made easy work of St. John Paul II on Wednesday and carried off a 5-0 victory. Given the Red Hawks' advantage in MaxPreps' Massachusetts soccer rankings (they are ranked 50th, while the Lions are ranked 192nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Plymouth North's win bumped their record up to 4-7-4. As for Barnstable, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-7-1 record this season.
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